EPpy Award finalists announced
Cory Bergman April 25th, 2008
The annual EPpy Award finalists for local TV/cable sites are MyFoxChicago.com, KING5.com (woo hoo!), wibw.com and WRAL.com. Finalists for the best news site (over 1 million uniques) are BBC News, CBCNews.ca, msnbc.com, NYTimes.com and Slate Magazine. And for network TV/cable sites: CBSNews.com, CNN.com, Discovery.com and ESPN.com. Good luck, everyone!
Steve adds in comments: “We (I am at Fox Chicago) are nominated as ‘Fox News Chicago’ rather than myFoxChicago.com. Our entry consisted of several URLs representing projects we have going here, including myFoxChicago, a local weather site, ObamaTracker, LiveNewsCameras, and our HS sports site.”
4 Comments Add your own
1. Anonymous | April 25th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
How many of those sites aren’t standard content management systems deployed on dozens of different stations’ websites?
Especially the MyFox candidate. It defeats the purpose of web site awards when you’re just “cherry picking” from a crop of clones.
By saying this, I mean no disrespect. Hell, I’m a web producer for a station that uses MyFox, but by the logic of choosing MyFoxChicago, they should just give the award to the entire MyFox platform.
I understand local content and all that, but stations are very limited with their ability to be diverse, especially when FIM doesn’t allow any customizations to their platform.
Someone should start an award (if it doesn’t already exist) for television site platforms / content management systems.
/Soapbox
Congrats to you and KING!
2. Steve | April 25th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
Just to clarify - and if you click through to the actual list of nominees you’ll see this - we (I am at Fox Chicago) are nominated as “Fox News Chicago” rather than myFoxChicago.com.
Our entry consisted of several URLs representing projects we have going here, including myFoxChicago, a local weather site, ObamaTracker, LiveNewsCameras, and our HS sports site.
3. b2b 91smw | April 26th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Our entry consisted of several URLs representing projects we have going here, including myFoxChicago, a local weather site, ObamaTracker, LiveNewsCameras, and our HS sports site.
4. Jim Ogle | April 26th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
Feeling a bit like Davidson this year or George Mason a couple of years ago, I’m just glad to make this Final Four!
I’m proud that everyone in our newsroom is a content producer. Our channel is a 24-hour site.
But I disagree that it is the content tool that makes the difference. Clickability is outstanding! But we create the design, and most importantly, the content. People make the difference in content! I’m so proud of my people!
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